Saturday, February 23, 2013

Free Money Game Idea

Integrating
games into academic lessons ignites the fun factor, makes instruction
multisensory and grabs the attention of even the most discouraged learners. I, too, enjoy the creative process
and love pulling out my craft and scrapbook materials, so the new game of the
week brings excitement and wonder into the classroom. This week, I created the Fun House
Money Game to help students develop their skills identifying and adding
pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

Items needed:

1) small box

2) craft or scrapbook paper

3) glue

4) scissors

5) long table or a melamine shelf

6) marbles or shuffle board
pieces (I purchased the shuffle
board pieces on Amazon and included the link below.)

7)

play money or real change in a small basket or plastic bin

Process:

1) Remove the bottom of the box with
scissors.

2) Cover the box with colorful craft
paper.

3) Cut four doorways/holes in the side
as illustrated.

4) Label the doorways: pennies,
nickels, dimes and quarters. You
can also use this same game for fractions, or other numerical denominations.

How to play:

Place
the colorful box at the end of a table or melamine shelf. Then, give each player twelve marbles
or shuffle board pieces. Next, decide
who goes first, and take turns trying to get the marbles/shuffle board pieces
into the doorways of the box. When
a marble enters the box, have that player select the correct change from the
change basket. Once one of the players has rolled all their marbles into the
box the game is over and all the players add up their change. The winner is the player with the
highest total.

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